Today, we are attending the groundbreaking for the new Butler Rough Hollow Park in Lakeway.
The new park will include an amphitheater featuring limestone-block seating built into the hillside, facing a concrete stage area. Other features include a mountain bike course, bank-shot play court, multisport field, playground, ninja course, pavilion, restroom facilities, picnic tables, and benches.
A backstop and fence, baseball bases, portable benches, and portable soccer goals will be installed in the multisports field. The playground will include integrated shade, roller slides, swings, and multiple play levels for all ages. We are catered by Jefferys of Austin, and our entertainment is Spanky and Our Gang.
Menu
Veal medallions américaine – crawfish in sauce américaine fava beans, lardo & onion soubise
Roast guinea fowl – truffle mousseline, morel mushrooms, fiddlehead fern & buttered herb jus
Long Island Duck breast – sweet red California cherries, hakurei turnips, Moroccan spiced sauce
Alaskan halibut – spring ramp nage, beech mushrooms, caviar, crème fraîche
Red snapper â la barigoule – chorizo-encrusted snapper, poached fennel & spring vegetables
Roasted turnip – wood roasted turnip, kale furikake, carrot ginger-miso broth
16 oz Colorado rack of lamb, served with mint jelly
16 oz tomahawk pork chop, served with truffle butter
Let’s go
The welcome tent.
Visitors to the event can take a sapling home.
Cookies and water.
The shovels are waiting for the official moment. The big guy on the right has the day off.
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Good attendance.
The gang of seven. From left, Parks and Recreation Director Andrea Bennett, City Manager Joseph Molis, City Council Member Kent O’ Brian, Mayor Tom Kilgore, Forester Richard Leon, Council member Wes Hook, Assistant Director Parks and Recreation Ricky Gavett.
The ground is broken.
The map of the finished park in the summer of 2027.
We have our red oak tree, and now it is time to relax with music and Food. I hope you have a great week.
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This looks brilliant John and I love the fact there will be a ninja course, we are great fans… it sounds like there will be something for everyone… hugsx
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I think so, too. Thanks, Sally.
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How wonderful. This place will be amazing! Perfect song too.
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Thank you, Darlene. It is going to be swell.
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It’s great you will have a new park, John 🌳🌲
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We think so too. Thanks, Robbie.
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John, this is lovely. Thanks for taking us along.
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Always good to have you on the bus, Kymber.
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Cool that you get a sapling. Do you grow it at home and then donate it to the park?
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No we will keep this one. It is a nice red oak.
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Good leaf source for, Tempeste.
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That’s for sure. 😄
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The park should be a wonderful place for Lakeway residents! As for the song, I’m having a lazy Sunday.
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That is meant to be, Liz. 😊
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😊
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I think this is a really momentous start to something the kids are apparently really looking forward to! Your community is a true community in every sense of the word!
Love the 70’s outfits on Spanky and the Gang. Great song for a Sunday! Like To Get To Know You is another good one!
And Alaskan halibut, please! There’s no other choice possible!
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Alaskan halibut is delicious. Good choice.
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YUM!
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It’s a great project, John, and the visitors were well-treated. The place will be really attractive when complete, I believe.
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I think it will be terrific. I look forward to reporting on its progress.
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Good, John. 😊
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John, you have a most wonderful neighborhood. This park is going to be something else! How many acres is it?
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The park is 9.5 acres. Thanks, Lois.
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Nice endeavor.
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Thanks, Pat
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This looks amazing! I love that your community is creating such an inclusive third place. Ours doesn’t have very many and it’s a serious oversight. Also, I was rolling right along until I hit ninja course — is google right that it’s an obstacle course? What a great addition to the park!
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It is an obstacle course. It is broken down into age groups too.
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A fun area that also it makes space for different abilities. I love that it will be useful even as kids age. What a great idea!
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I thought it was a great idea, too.
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What a wonderful event, John. I’m sorry, but my mind immediately drifted 59 years into the future and reading “The Top-10 Things Not to do If You’re Attending the Groundbreaking.” Does one of the people in the group of seven go by the nickname Tiny?
I was going to have the healthy halibut but then I saw the 16 oz tomahawk pork chop. Pork chop for me, please.
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There is a 42 oz porterhouse on the menu as well. I didn’t list it since nobody would believe it. 😄 I think ole Wes Hook is really Tiny.
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John, that sounds like a super park facility you are building. I know you can’t wait to put your bike (the one you named pocket rocket) on that bike course. Send me a video and order me a cup of that fowl guinea🐳
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One cup of fowl guinea coming up. The park is too far from me. I don’t have bike hauling gear on my car.
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Looks like an amazing park they are building. Are you guys working on it in any way ? Could be fun.
Be sure to grab a sapling.
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I grabbed a red oak sapling. No, we are not working on it. It is all professional contractors.
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this sounds dandy, just dandy!
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I agree, Annette. Thanks.
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John, how about that TomBo guy, is he “on the stick” or what🐳
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Yes indeed. Much like you.
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A new park is almost always good news!
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I think this one will be good news.
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I hope so; it appears to be a good plan!
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How wonderful that they were handing out saplings! It looks like it’s going to be a great park 🙂
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I thought so too. I got a red oak to take home.
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Nice!
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Looks like it’s going to be a quite remarkable park with something for everyone. How cool that it’s in your neighborhood.
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I agree. Monika. It will be great. Thanks.
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That sounds like it’s going to be a great park 🙂
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Thank you, Barbara. It does.
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That looks like a fun groundbreaking. It is great that your neighborhood is opening another park. The photos are great.
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This all sounds terrific, John. I love it when facilities are built that the whole community can enjoy.
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I do too. This project is part of a $22M bond passed in 2024. Thanks, Pete
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A very cool project, John, and I love the sapling give away. That seems so perfect.
I look forward to the tour of the finished park!
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Thank you, Resa. I took a red oak. 🌳X 🌳X 🌳X
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Looks like you’re going to have a beautiful new park next summer, John.
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That “big guy on the right” is gonna have his work cut out for him in the days ahead, John. Sounds like a great project that will be a blessing for the entire community upon completion.
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